New horizons, rearranged narratives

2nd July 2017

June 2017
Green Door Store

Bitter Disko

We had a kind of story arc in mind for the June show, starting off with Bitter Disko and his stripped down all electronic percussion setup. Stunningly pure in conception, he builds some tonality in by overdriving tom or bell sounds, but it’s all hardware drum machines rattling away in erratic twitchy rhythms, driving on and on. We have had audiences dancing before but this mass twitching and odd convulsions are more widespread and unusual.

Second in line we have the return of Nuclear Whale, his lovely array of hardware and looping visuals. Interspersing disturbing off-centre drones and sirens with rhythmic passages that occasionally get up to a fair old rattle. He almost hits both sides of crystalline Detroit and noise walls without losing the sense of what it is he does. Some real fun in here.

The final act of the evening is Fane’s first show. So that’s a real bonus. His set unwinds quite unusually starting with a really intense thick bagpipey drones with banjo (Hah! Oh yes) before a mid-tempo rhythm slips in and he does some singing (now THAT is something unusual) and eventually it unravels as the bagpipes decay into space slides for a lengthy and quite hallucinatory drone out to end on a very odd digital folk tip. The sounds aren’t the earthy electronic folk inflected sounds of Kemper Norton, say, but oddly clean and shiny, but still with something that hints of the fence or hedgerow.

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News

We are very excited to announce the new release from the Spirit of Gravity netlabel, “Music from airports, aircrafts and some other flying things. Vol. 3: Krakow Airport” by the latest project from Fernando Perales, My Cosa de Resistance / My Thing “De Resistance”.

“Music from airports, aircrafts and some other flying things. Vol 3: Krakow Airport” is the third of a series of records recorded while waiting for a flight at different airports around Europe during the summer of 2018.

Formerly of the iconic Argentinian band Reynols, Fernando Perales he has been working as Mi Cosa de Resistance (My thing “De Resistance”) since 2016,a lofi post-ambient project based on sampling, releasing 6 albums via Bandcamp since 2017.

Also recently released was the long-awaited album by minimal impact, simply titled ‘6’. Three tracks feature the kind of massive shimmering drones that MI (aka Steve Gillitt) has made his sonic calling card: like tightly tuned aircraft engines, they ratchet up towards take-off. The album features treated recordings of live sets in Brighton from the past five years, and draws on base recordings of MI’s Space 1 & 2 albums, which have long since ceased to be available.

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